Our view: Time to regroup

It’s coincidental, but the annual lull of spring break in Otsego County is timed just right with the retooling of the state’s automakers.

This is the time of year our remaining business owners close up shop for a week or so. There’s no snow left and no grass yet.

For what’s left of the industries that drive our tourism they are in a rebuilding mode anyway.

Economic events last year — gasoline at $4-plus per gallon perhaps most of all — undercut what could have been a great summer by reaching their heights in June and July.

Over the winter, the stock market pulled the plug, no matter that we had huge snowfall totals for December.

It’s time to take a breath and close down for reasons within our control.

GM, Chrysler, and the national economy in general will still be in the same state of affairs on Monday when many people return to work. But if there’s a silver lining we can stretch for, it must be that we are now answering more questions about how businesses will survive than we are asking.